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Patented Jan. 30, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE KNITTING MACHINE Patrick P. La Montagne and George H. Froemming, Kankakee, 111., assignors to La Montagne Machine Company, Kankakee, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application July 22, 1930. Serial No. 469,710

42 Claims.

for controlling the operation of the needles are rotated and oscillated relatively to each other to enable round and round or to and fro work to be performed as required. In the preferred form of the invention, the needle cylinder is rotated and oscillated with respect to a fixed cam cylinder. While the machine is in many respects of broader application, it is more particularly designed for the knitting of a complete shaped or tailored stocking having the advantages of a full-fashioned stocking but capable of being produced far more economically and rapidly.

The invention has for its further object to provide means for knitting a complete stocking web beginning at the top so as to provide the desired garter top; a stocking web in which the toe pocket section is formed on the front of the web thus doing away with a seam across the top of the toe; a stocking web in which the web from the calf to the end of the toe is knit by to and fro knitting with a gap extending throughout the length of this section of the web at the back, thus providing the required shape.

The invention has for its further object to provide means for knitting such a stocking web in which both edges of the gap throughout their length are formed with an elastic selvage, thus rendering unnecessary any breaking of the yarn when the edges of the web are seamed or looped together.

The invention has for its further object to provide means for knitting the foot section of the web thus knit to and fro with sole sections and an instep section formed of different yarns and with a novel, durable joint of pleasing appearance between the sole and instep sections.

The invention has for its further object to provide means for knitting such a stocking web with a minimum waste of yarn and in which the only yarn wasted is that employed in the portion of the calf section cut away to tailor the web into the desired shape to fit the leg.

The invention has for its further object to provide in such a machine means for varying the length of stitch wherever required and particularly so as to provide different lengths of stitch in the knitting of the instep or sole sections of the foot.

The invention has for its further object to provide means for knitting with to and fro work the heel in two separate sections separated by the gap at the back of the web and with separate yarns fed to each of the heel sections.

The invention has for its further object to provide various novel mechanisms including means for operating and controlling a plurality of yarn guiding fingers, duplicatable mechanisms for operating and controllingvarious elements of the machine, means for absorbing the shock of the rotary shift in position of the needle cylinder with respect to the cam cylinder, means for preventing a yarn held out of action from being wrapped around the mechanism of the machine when a rotary shift of the needle cylinder takes place, means to prevent the severed ends of yarns held out of action, from being knit into the web,

means for controlling the length of stitch under all required conditions, various pattern-controlled mechanisms and other features giving the machine a high degree of flexibility and enabling it to perform a wide variety of work rapidly and ent to La Montagne, No. 1,695,734, granted December 18, 1928. Features of construction and operation not specifically described herein will be familiar to those skilled in the art and it is therefore unnecessary here to illustrate and describe various details of a knitting machine with which the present invention is not particularly concerned.

The drawings illustrate a preferred form of the invention as arranged for the knitting of a complete web for a woman's stocking beginning at the top and ending at the toe and, when complete, requiring only the tapering of the calf section and the seaming up of the edges of the web to produce a finished stocking shaped to the leg of the wearer.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation looking toward the left of the machine.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation looking toward the right of the machine.

Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of the main 

